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Brokeback Mountain inspires ... a look at gay neighborhoods and housing prices.

Still, this peaked my curiosity and I headed over to epodunk.com for some same-sex household statistics. It turns out Laguna Niguel gets a 142 (42% more same-sex households than the US average) and Aliso Viejo (next city over, where the movie was also showing) gets 180 (80% more same-sex households than average). Still, my parents’ city (San Clemente) gets a measly 83 (20% less than average), so it’s not universal for the area. Laguna Beach is a whopping 478 (nearly 5 times the national average), which is actually about the same as San Francisco (479). These are still the suburbs and settled down people though, so it says little about the number of single gay men (for example) that inhabit these places. If I had to guess, I think the high numbers in Aliso Viejo and Laguna Niguel maybe reflect spill over from neighboring Laguna Beach where housing prices are even more astronomical. Get partnered, buy a house in the cheaper burbs over the hills, etc. For my North Carolina readers here are the names and scores of various Triangle cities: Durham (152), Raleigh (106), Chapel Hill (97), Carrboro (117). Seattle garners a respectable 341. I’m a bit surprised that there are so many same sex households in this area. It makes me wonder if this place is a hot bed for Log Cabin Republicans (a gay Republican group for those not in the know). I’ve done searches on dating sites before too and there are WAY more available gay men here than in the Triangle, which I admit still surprises me somewhat. I mean when I was in high school, there was nobody who was out (at least that I knew of) and people were socially quite conservative.

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